Month: October 2010

Video of plane certification process

ABC shot a cool video about how Boeing engineers test 747s for the certification process, including taxiing through a giant puddle at 50 knots. 747-8 Flight Test Manager Andy Hammer says the water test is to see, “whether water actually gets ingested into the engines”. See below for the video with further explanation of the

Travel Taboos

A truly informative piece by Fox News points out the common mistakes that travelers make when visiting other cultures and countries because simple things like hand gestures that are common in the United States may be considered offensive somewhere else. Ironic that in other countries certain gestures may mean the exact opposite of what we

JetBlue in the news: How to sleep with your flight attendant (and what they think of you)

Sorry folks, not as exciting as the title may indicate, but Jaunted published a fun piece about how the writer befriended one of our Inflight Crewmembers and ended up getting a personalized tour of Buffalo and a place to crash as a result (and perhaps a new friendship as well?). *While we understand the mixing